On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 10:40 PM, Alan Cox[off-list ref] wrote:

Trace is during a modprobe

strcmp of NULL pointer from

Looks like the HID/UID NULL pointer issue that was fixed by
acpi-fix-null-bug-for-hid-uid-string-2.patch in -mm tree

Lin Ming

acpi_device_probe + 0xA3/0x123
driver_probe_device
__driver_attach
bus_for_each_dev
driver_attach
__driver_attach
bus_add_driver
driver_register
acpi_bus_register_driver
acpi_video_register [video]
acpi_video_init [video]
_stext + 49
acpi_video_init + 0x0
..
..
sys_init_module

/sbin/modprobe -b acpi:LNXVIDEO: abnormal exit

IRQ routing has also broken which worked fine before (resulting in no USB)

HP (Compaq) Presario V5000 F.15 (Intel Video, Intel Celeron CPU @1.46GHz)


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